‘The tarot cards are a machine for the construction of stories’ (Italo Calvino). Taking your cue from this, you will explore the mysterious imagery of tarot cards and use it as a basis for generating ideas for poems. You’ll also look at texts by T S Eliot and Anna McKerrow, who have each, in very different ways, used the tarot as a way of tapping into the arcane as a source of poetic inspiration.